Re: Port 135 Probes Continue
From: Joe (joe_at_jretrading.com)
Date: 12/25/03
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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:51:36 +0000
In message <86hdzpygjj.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk>, Tim Haynes
<usenet-20031224@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes
>Joe <joe@jretrading.com> writes:
>
>> matter. Is there a legitimate reason for connecting to a portmapper over
>> the Internet?
>
>Yes, to mount NFS shares.
>
People really do that over the Net?
>> unwanted traffic. Some will choose not to do so, and may then forfeit
>> income because of this. If enough people want a clean Internet, it will
>> happen, but not otherwise. Think of it as democracy in action.
>
>I'm not convinced that would be a democracy so much as a capitalist, or
>just plain market-driven, state. It's time people started demanding things
>of ISPs and companies like the stereotypical Brit from 20yrs ago, rather
>than accepting what's forced down their throats like a bunch of Americans.
><gd&r>.
>
Isn't that what I said? Demand all you like, you'll get nowhere without
some means of applying pressure other than rhetoric. Money usually
works.
-- Joe
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